A career police officer with 32years of service in the UK, with some 20 years experience as a senior police officer. In 1994, was a member of the EU police monitoring team at the first Democratic General Election in South Africa.For the past fifteen years has been exclusively involved in International rule of law training and development projects as both a short term and long term residential adviser. Has completed three long term projects in support of the accession process of the European Union in central and east Europe and the Baltic States. Has been involved in numerous short term developmental or evaluation assignments in central and east Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic States and Turkey.Was employed as the Deputy Programme Co-ordinator for a long term EU funded programme of training and development in support of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. More recently has been a short term expert working with the Palestinian Civil Police in Ramallah in the West Bank of Palestine.A deployable civilian expert under the UK Government, Stabilisation Unit.